Retaining And Luring Talented People

During economic uncertainty key employees and contractors think about "how is the economy going to affect me and my family". As people get nervous they start looking at options. Should I stay with this organisation? Can my family weather the storm? Looking at the Australian economy, a major challenge will be to keep key people. A major opportunity will be to lure key employees from your competitors.

Action Plan

How to implement a retention plan when a talented person is considering leaving

How to develop effective coaching relationships with talented employees

How to keep people focused on bigger opportunities

How to get discretionary effort without asking

How to motivate and empower people to exceed their objectives

How to resolve any conflict seamlessly and quickly

How to remove any role ambiguity that talented people often cause

How to use pull employment strategies to lure external talented people

How to build trust levels to nurture an environment of open communication

How to use NLP communication techniques to promote calm

How to use Appreciate Enquiry as a tool to retain staff

How to prevent talent leakage from the same departments

How to set performance and feedback mechanisms

How to use exit surveys to unearth critical information

How to position your organisation as the place to be for talented people

Key learning outcomes

Your Retaining and Luring Talented People program will give participants the skills to:

Understand the motivational styles of talented people

Give regular and effective feedback to keep talented people on track

Build rapport to generate trust and manage resistance

Use effective communication techniques to empower others

Use exit surveys to change existing behaviours

Make department heads more accountable for ensuring talented people stay

Build levels of trust and support

Create a sense of making a real difference by exceeding targets

Keep talented people on track as they tend to wander and can get lost in other activities